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The John M & Nancy S Murphy Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$51k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
67%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 15
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$857k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations The John M & Nancy S Murphy Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementInternationalHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving15$51k7%
FY202415$35k67%
FY20237$28k86%
FY20221$27k0%
FY20211$13kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$66kCrime & Legal$15kHuman Services$13kInternational$12kHealth$11kHousing & Shelter$10kYouth Development$8kReligion$7kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Rose of Lima School Inc$66,0005n/a
The Water Project Inc$12,00030%
The Center For Empowerment And Education Inc$10,00020%
Malta House Inc$9,50030%
Cross Catholic Outreach Inc$7,0002n/a
Catholic Charities of Fairfield County Inc$6,50020%
St Catherine Center for Special Needs Inc$6,00020%
Tears Foundation$5,00011%
Jericho Partnership Inc$4,50020%
The Innocence Project Inc$4,50030%
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All grantees of The John M & Nancy S Murphy Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Rose of Lima School Inc$66,0005n/a
The Water Project Inc$12,00030%
The Center For Empowerment And Education Inc$10,00020%
Malta House Inc$9,50030%
Cross Catholic Outreach Inc$7,0002n/a
Catholic Charities of Fairfield County Inc$6,50020%
St Catherine Center for Special Needs Inc$6,00020%
Tears Foundation$5,00011%
Jericho Partnership Inc$4,50020%
The Innocence Project Inc$4,50030%
Malta Camp USA Inc$3,50020%
Mission Santa Maria$3,50020%
Deerfield Valley Food Pantry Inc$3,50023%
Holy Family Hospital of Bethlehem Foundation$3,5002n/a
Wilmington Works Inc$3,00021%
Faith Food Pantry$2,5001n/a
Ronald McDonald House Global$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($2k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The John M & Nancy S Murphy Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Water Project Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Center For Empowerment And Education Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMalta House Inc: $9,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCatholic Charities of Fairfield County Inc: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Catherine Center for Special Needs Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTears Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJericho Partnership Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Innocence Project Inc: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMalta Camp USA Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMission Santa Maria: $3,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDeerfield Valley Food Pantry Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetWilmington Works Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of RhodesNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The John M & Nancy S Murphy Foundation Inc

How much does The John M & Nancy S Murphy Foundation Inc give?
The John M & Nancy S Murphy Foundation Inc reported 15 grants totaling $50,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 15 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does The John M & Nancy S Murphy Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (43%), Crime & Legal (9%), Human Services (8%).
Who are The John M & Nancy S Murphy Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: St Rose of Lima School Inc ($66k), The Water Project Inc ($12k), The Center For Empowerment And Education Inc ($10k).
Does The John M & Nancy S Murphy Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The John M & Nancy S Murphy Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The John M & Nancy S Murphy Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes, Synchrony Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is The John M & Nancy S Murphy Foundation Inc based?
The John M & Nancy S Murphy Foundation Inc is based in DE.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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